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Summer of Fun
Summer break is nearly here, and with it the sunshine and long days that seem infinitely longer when the kids have nothing to do. Pour yourself a tall lemonade and peruse this year’s Summer of Fun listings, where you’ll surely find the right camp, class or summer excursion for your youngster, whether they’re into stages,…
Bodil Vanderlinde-Ravn May 2, 1934-May 4, 2024
On Saturday night, May 4, 2024, my darling Bodil passed away peacefully of dementia at age 90. When we met in Rhodesia, you had just arrived from Denmark to see your parents who were farming in Rhodesia. She had been a nursery school teacher and director in American Canyon at Noah’s Arc, before working in…
Glenda Miller: 1930-2024
Glenda Miller passed away April 4 at the age of 93. She was a woman of faith and while we are so saddened by her passing, we take comfort in knowing she is being celebrated in heaven by those who have gone before her. She is survived by her four children, nine grandchildren and 17…
Beverly “Kay” Barnard Enos: 1946-2024
Beverly “Kay” Barnard Enos passed away Friday, April 5, at 78 years old. She passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by her loving partner and granddaughters. Kay (as known to most) was born on Feb. 8, 1946, in French Camp, California. She was made stronger by her childhood. She graduated from high school in…
Michele (Feldman) Baughman: 1937-2024
On Monday, April 1, at 7:42 pm, Michele (Feldman) Baughman died peacefully at home surrounded by her dearest friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Feldman, her brother Roland, and her beloved husband of 54 years, Don Patrick Baughman. Michele was born on May 12, 1937, in Paris, France. Her…
Music Tonight: Thursday, May 16
With the summer heat coming early, our evenings are warm and fragrant, especially near one of our rivers. Few places boast that night perfume like the Logger Bar, where the back patio sits a stone’s slingshot (almost) from the Mad. Tonight at 8 p.m. you can while away the twilight time with some live blues…
Music Tonight: Wednesday, May 15
Portland’s Fruition features trio-vocal harmonies generally led by singer/guitarist Jay Cobb Anderson, who you may recognize as having passed through this way as a solo act not so long ago. The music is electro-folk, country and modern blues with a confessional quality to the lyrics, which does nothing to dampen the instrumental bombast of the…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, May 14
Speaking of our local all-ages, sober gem the Outer Space, there’s an evening of dream pop awaiting you there at 8 p.m. tonight for a suggested door price of $10. Lane Lines hails from Seattle and Phoenix, two very different places, and has, I imagine, harnessed the contradictions of such into a personal songbook of…
Sheriff’s Office IDs Deputy Who Shot Suspect
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the deputy who fatally shot a shooting suspect last month as Lt. Conan Moore, who remains on paid administrative leave. According to the Sheriff’s Office, Moore was responding to the scene of the report that a 75-year-old woman had been shot in Cutten and arrived to find Kevin…
Music Tonight: Monday, May 13
Ethiopian jazz, roots and funk music has enjoyed a well-deserved appreciation in the West for the last two decades, due in part to several reissues and compilations from the ’60s and ’70s making their way to the right record collectors and tastemakers. Qwanqwa is a quintet from the nation’s capital of Addis Ababa, and represents…
CPH Graduation at the Courthouse and the Casino
Cal Poly Humboldt graduating senior Angel Barker wasn’t expecting to receive her diploma at a casino. “My high school graduation was a drive-thru in the parking lot because it was in 2020 at the beginning of COVID-19,” Barker said. “I was really excited to have my family see me walk across the stage at the…
Music Tonight: Sunday, May 12
Portland’s best fruit-flavored funk trio Sweet N’ Juicy is back at it again, stopping at the Siren’s Song Tavern tonight at 8 p.m. to make some hot jam. For the uninitiated, or for those who may have forgotten, these fellas dress up as a banana, a strawberry and a pineapple, and play tight and funky…
Summer Camps, CPH Protest Fallout, Eureka Eats
It’s the Summer of Fun issue this week with a rundown of summer camps and classes for the kids all over Humboldt. We’ve also got updates on the Cal Poly Humboldt campus closure and the community response, including at a public university senate hearing. Finally, we’ll take a look at what to eat around Eureka.…
Music Tonight: Saturday, May 11
John Ludington is generally known in the area as one of our more versatile bassists and singers, providing rhythm and back-up for Canary and the Vamp, or holding it down as one quarter of Absynth Quartet, our beloved oddball jam act, so you know right from the jump here he’s got chops. However, what you…
Doubting Shakespeare, Part 3: Whodunnit?
Last week, I presented arguments supporting the anti-Stratfordian case, that Stratford’s “Shakspere” wasn’t the sublime writer William Shakespeare. If the man from Stratford didn’t write the Shakespearean canon, who did? Originally, Francis Bacon was considered the prime candidate. Later contenders included: Christopher Marlowe; Henry Neville; Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke; William Stanley, sixth Earl…
Virginia St., fool
sometimes when a black hand is raised the two first fingers split in the air it doesn’t mean Virginia Street, fool all day!!, riding…, it just means peace. It just means peace Gregory Downing
Campus Closed
In the week after Cal Poly Humboldt brought a large police force to campus to clear pro-Palestinian protesters from the area around Siemens Hall, arresting 32 people, including a professor and 13 students, the campus has remained closed, with discord seemingly growing between faculty and administration. A group of several dozen protesters entered Siemens Hall…
Pomp and Circumstance
It’s graduation time again at Cal Poly Humboldt and due to the circumstances of our times, as well as the stupid pomposity of the University’s president and his enablers, grads will be walking just about everywhere around the county except for on the campus. I don’t have much to say about that beyond what I…
What’s Good: Thai, Doughnuts and a Rooftop View
Willow Creek Thai in Eureka Willow Creek has long drawn campers, hikers, rafters and Bigfoot hunters. And if, when you pull off the cartoonishly winding, cliff-hugging State Route 299, you can unlock your hand from the grab bar, you can enjoy a view of majestic trees and the sunlight bouncing from a glossy chicken wing…
Albee at the EXIT
I have never liked Edward Albee’s The American Dream, not as a part of my script analysis classes, nor in the multiple productions that I’ve seen performed. I find it to be shrouded with intellectual commentary and unfollowable simile that leaves the audience wondering what the hell is actually happening. Yet, I am still drawn…
Lions and Dragons in Old Town
Arts Alive! on Saturday in Eureka had the usual art and music lineup, but Old Town also featured several costumed May the Fourth Star Wars characters and a big crowd at the third annual Eureka Chinatown Street Festival – Year of the Dragon. The festival on three blocks of E Street in front of the Clarke…
The Fall Guy Takes it on the Chin
THE FALL GUY. At the risk of speaking more reboots into existence, the storeroom of old media is not always the refuge of the unimaginative. For it to work, some part of its original DNA that still resonates must be preserved, while others are tweaked to make it new. Listen, Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida was…
Re: The CPH Protests
Editor: I admire the moral concern of the protesting students around the nation, even as actions by students, faculty and administrators differ from school to school (“On Siemens Hall Hill,” May 2). Disruptive, but peaceful, civil disobedience is an acceptable form of protest, and it comes with personal consequences. The revulsion against the unimaginable Hamas attack is clearly…
‘Our Wantonly Ways’
Editor: The mega offshore floating wind turbine experiment is a colossal gamble (Mailbox, May 2). Environmentally it contributes little to zero good outcomes; actually creating more of a negative impact from what I am learning. The ocean is full of life, home to so many life forms that we probably can’t even conceive. We need…
‘A Form of Bullying’
Editor: I appreciate that Jennifer Savage raised the issue of how the internet and social media distort our perceptions (“Making Change: The Internet, the self in the shadow,” April 25). It is an important topic that deserves more coverage. Unfortunately, by choosing to focus on Naomi Klein’s mischaracterization of Naomi Wolf and her work, Savage…
